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The Chap in America

The Chap Magazine is launching in the United States in Autumn 2018. From 20th September, the Autumn edition of The Chap will be available in selected branches of Barnes & Noble in all the major cities of the USA.
Will American chaps enjoy the publication? We believe they will, for there are already thousands of men and women in the United States who dress impeccably and celebrate precisely the values enshrined in our gentlemen’s periodical. Ever since interviewing film director John Waters in our fifth edition at the beginning of this century, it has come to our attention that the percentage of American men who kick against the slovenly dress codes of the age, and treat their choice of pocket square as the most important decision of the day, is as high as it is in Britain.
The cover star of our first edition to be sold in the US is New York dandy, impresario and bandleader Dandy Wellington, who has been putting such pazzazz into dandyism that countless others have followed suit, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland. Baltimore has sartorially been single-handedly taken care of by John Waters. Having barely scratched the surface of the many chaps and chapettes already living in the US, we shall be bringing more and more of them into the pages of the Chap for future editions. Significant Americans already featured in the pages of the Chap include Vintage Egyptologist Colleen Darnell, Stray Cat Slim Jim Phantom and those gathered every year in Washington to celebrate Seersucker Social.
Our regular American contributors will continue to fill our pages with reports of Chappish activity from across the Atlantic, and we will be including vintage events based in the US in our Vintage Events Guide.
The Chap, Autumn 2018, on sale in Barnes & Noble from 20th September 2018.
Digital edition available from issuu.com

The Chap was founded in 1999 and is the longest-serving British magazine dedicated to the gentlemanly way of life, with its own quirky, satirical take on a style that has recently entered the mainstream.

1 Comment

Well done The Chap – breaking into a new market can only be applauded. As long as the publication remains a British institution, avoiding all unfortunate Americanisms, I shall be happy. After all, I would think it is the very Britishness of the magazine that our American friends would appreciate. As far as including a guide to American vintage events – cannot really see the point – not many of us would be popping across the pond for the day now would we – seems a bit like unnecessary padding to me.
Keep up the good work.